Retrieve data
"Have you ever lost data that meant the world to you? Try losing your 25 page senior college term paper the day before it is due! Worst of all, this did not happen today, or even five years ago when data retrieval and back up is included in every software program out there. No, this happened in 1987 on an MS-DOS based, PC-clone running WordPerfect version 1.0 (or something equally as primitive.) The good news was that I had a hard copy printed. The bad news was that my hard copy was also my edited copy.
Complete with words crossed out, handwritten notes in the margin and coffee stains. This was long before spell check and all of the automated features in today's word processing software which would have let me do all my editing online. Luckly, my father and husband-to-be were software programmers and able to help me retrieve the data. Unfortunately, this took about a week! I took the "sloppy copy" into my professor, along with my teary eyes, and promised that I would get him a good copy ASAP. Now, twenty years later, I have learned, backup, backup, backup. Even though this recovery would probably take about five minutes today, I still have this vivid memory of lost data and the trouble it can cause."
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